1887 Yale Bulldogs football team

The 1887 Yale Bulldogs football team represented Yale University in the 1887 college football season. The team finished with a 9–0 record and was retroactively named as the national champion by the Billingsley Report, Helms Athletic Foundation, Houlgate System, National Championship Foundation, and Parke H. Davis.[1][2]

1887 Yale Bulldogs football
Consensus national champion IFA champion
Conference	Intercollegiate Football Association
1887 record	9–0 ( IFA)
Head coach	None
Captain	Harry Beecher
Home stadium	Yale Field

1887 Eastern college football independents records
	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		T			W		L		T
Yale			–					9	–	0	–	0
Penn State			–					2	–	0	–	0
Harvard			–					10	–	1	–	0
Lafayette			–					7	–	2	–	0
Princeton			–					7	–	2	–	0
Lehigh			–					4	–	3	–	0
Trinity (CT)			–					3	–	3	–	1
Penn			–					6	–	7	–	0
Wesleyan			–					4	–	5	–	0
Amherst			–					4	–	6	–	0
Massachusetts			–					2	–	3	–	0
Rutgers			–					3	–	6	–	0
Tufts			–					3	–	6	–	0
Bucknell			–					0	–	2	–	0
Cornell			–					0	–	2	–	0
Franklin & Marshall			–					0	–	2	–	0
Stevens			–					0	–	6	–	1
Union (NY)			–							–
Worcester Tech			–							–

Schedule

Date	Opponent	Site	Result	Source
October 5	Wesleyan	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 38–0
October 15	at Wesleyan	Middletown, CT	W 106–0
October 22	at Williams	Williamstown, MA	W 74–0
October 29	at Penn	Philadelphia, PA	W 50–0
November 6	Rutgers	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 74–0
November 8	at Crescent Athletic Club	Polo Grounds New York, NY	W 70–0	[3]
November 12	Wesleyan	Yale Field New Haven, CT	W 76–4
November 19	vs. Princeton	New York, NY (rivalry)	W 12–0
November 24	vs. Harvard	Polo Grounds New York, NY (rivalry)	W 17–8

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References

1. National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) (2015). "National Poll Rankings" (PDF). NCAA Division I Football Records. NCAA. p. 107. Retrieved January 4, 2016.
2. "1887 Yale Bulldogs Schedule and Results". SR/College Football. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 27, 2017.
3. "Yale Foot Ball Kickers: Harry Beecher Helped Them Annihilate the Brookly Crescents". The Brooklyn Daily Eagles. November 9, 1887. p. 4 – via Newspapers.com.